it's all about engagement!

It’s All About Engagement!!!

By Chris Wenger CCC-SLP

SandTimer •Increases on-task behavior •On screen or on one desk •Keeps teacher on schedule •Focuses ADHD students

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Chrome extensions:-Task Time-Dayboard

• Daily News in all subject areas

• Build reading comprehension

• Every article at 5 reading levels

• High interest topics• Target variety of

speech/language skills

• Dozens of templates targeting different areas of curriculum

• Add images/audio/hyperlinks

• Organize thoughts and topics for writing

• Understand cause + effect

• Helps plan, organize and build thinking skills

• Can export into writing app (Pages)

Custom Boards

Pic Collage

• Create multimedia collages

• Visually summarize

• Associations

• Expansion of categories

• Engagement!!

• User-friendly

Adobe Acrobat Reader: App

• Annotate on PDFs: sticky notes and drawing tools

• Use highlights to bring in attention

• Markup any screenshot (great to app smash)

• Scan: Use device camera to capture ANYTHING (e.g. whiteboard, form, picture, note

• Easy to export (Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive)

• Instant access to 15k books (FREE!)

• Read anytime, any device

• High quality, visually stimulating

• High Interest, Low Readability (easy to target students interests)

• Works great w/ AAC users (target CORE vocab)

• *Offers Apple TV app w/ new generation

Voice Dream Reader• Advanced text-to-speech

• Reads all PDF and word docs…SHUT UP!

• It’s integrated with Bookshare, Dropbox, etc.

• Synchronized word and line highlighting

• Change voice and reading speed

• The list is too long!!!

Kahoot

Easy display Records video AND audio Insert your own backgrounds and pictures

• Discover (other lessons)

• Customize

• Turns passive content into active content

• Track comprehension

• Time-embedded activities

Twitter: @speechdudeEmail: christopher.wenger@cjuhsd.netwww.speechdude.com